The Midweek Challenge on Weekly Prompts is: Curiosities. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here and I think my poem below is curious piece about the Winter Solstice
Featured Images Above & Below: were taken by Derrick Knight, who kindly allows me use his photos in conjunction with my poems >> https://derrickjknight.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/rising-ground-mist/

Long Night Moon
Dawnβs winter sunlight
Filters through the gloom
And softly kisses everything
The loitering ground mist rises
Above the cold nightβs
Bed of overlaying ferns
As the seasonβs solstice
Stealthily tiptoes away
From the long night moon *
* The Long Night Moon gets its name because the full moon in December occurs near the solstice, which has the longest night of the year.


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Thank you Beth
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Beautiful poem, Ivor! β€ I also love Derrick's misty photo!
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Thank you Cheryl, and Derrickβs photos are amazing prompts for me π€π
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Wonderful complements, photo and poem, Ivor π
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Thank you kindly π€π
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This felt whispered.
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I think I was whispering β¦ itβs hard to write about the cold when the weather is so warm down here in Ballarat
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I have enough cold here for all of us today Ivor. -6 f with wind chills of about -30f.
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Wow and Brrr β¦ itβll be over 90βF here Christmas Day and Boxing Day, my sister π
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I hope you are having a fabulous holiday Ivor π
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Perfect .. Iβm in luxury and getting a much needed rest β¦ and enjoying my sisterβs new Spa pool β¦π€
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A lovely poem, Ivor. Now the nights can get longer again, and the days will become cooler eventually.
Have a happy, healthy festive season.
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Thank you kindly Yvonne, and have a enjoyable festive season too
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And for us itβs the other way around. the nights become shorter but winter begins in earnest. I await April with anticipation.
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Such a beautiful poem, Ivor π
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Thanks Sueβ¦ a beautiful poem for Derrickβs beautiful photo π€ππ
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You have captured the beauty of shifting.β€οΈ
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Thanks Ali and merry Christmas to you and yours
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Love this β£οΈ
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Thank you Val, and Merry Christmas to you and yours ππ€ππΆπ€Ά
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Thank you Ivor! Merry Christmas to you πππ πΌπ€πποΈ
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Beautiful, Merry Christmas Ivor.
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Thank you Arlene β¦
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